Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
QUENTIN CRISPPeople say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it’s also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
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The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Men get laid, but women get screwed.
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I never saw Portsmouth by day.
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Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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To lose is not always failure.
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I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”
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